November 19, 2016

"The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Childh Sexual Abuse has announced its final schedule of public hearings including a three week examination of Catholic Church authorities which have been the subject of past case studies."

"Korea is famously referred to as a “department store of religions” and for a good reason too. For many Koreans, shamanism is not a foreign concept and I have come by quite a lot of people who call themselves Christians yet also make frequent visits to shamans’ homes. Also, different religious beliefs can be pursued even among family members. The reaction and attitude towards shamanism is definitely different from that of Westerners, and this is to be expected."

"One to One works by tracking people in the U.S. and U.K. who are at a particularly high risk of online indoctrination into extremism, then having former radicals like Amira reach out to these vulnerable individuals. Alongside nine other people recruited from the Against Violent Extremism network, a group of 309 former extremists from all over the world, Amira sends anonymous Facebook messages to women who appear to be supporting ISIS, and tries to deter them."

"Rabbi Eliezer Berland, founder of the Shuvu Bonim religious group, was extradited to Israel earlier in the year after three years on the run that took him between Zimbabwe, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and South Africa, accompanied by a group of devout followers numbering around 40 families."

"In the film, Wyatt plays Ernestine Markham, whom she describes as deeply devoted to Jones. Markham is based on Peoples Temple member Christine Miller, who, recordings of the temple’s last hours show, stood up to Jones as others died around her. She perished in the jungle, too.

“My character was that voice that said, ‘We don’t have to do this,'” Wyatt said.""

November 16, 2016

If the U.S. had 100 people: Charting Americans’ religious affiliations
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/14/if-the-u-s-had-100-people-charting-americans-religious-affiliations/

Ramdev’s Patanjali wants to drive “injurious to health” Coke and Pepsi out of India?
http://www.financialexpress.com/industry/companies/baba-ramdevs-patanjali-wants-to-drive-injurious-to-health-coke-and-pepsi-out-of-india/446181/

An Ohio lawyer hypnotized six female clients and then molested them. Now he’s going to prison.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/15/ohio-lawyer-hypnotized-six-female-clients-then-he-molested-them/

'The Dead Inside' Details One Woman's Struggle To Survive In A Cult-Like, Abusive Treatment Center For Teens
"Maybe you've heard stories about the notorious Straight, Inc., a drug treatment facility for teens that became the subject of numerous abuse allegations during its 17 years in business. Maybe you've heard the horror stories, but Cyndy Etler lived them. In her young adult memoir, The Dead Inside, out April 1, 2017, Etler details the 16 months she spent behind locked doors at Straight, Inc. — a treatment program called "a concentration camp for throwaway kids" by an official for the American Civil Liberties Union."
https://www.bustle.com/articles/195228-the-dead-inside-details-one-womans-struggle-to-survive-in-a-cult-like-abusive-treatment-center-for

How the offshoot of an ancient Hindu practice popularized by the Beatles made its way to Wall Street
http://www.cultnews101.com/2016/11/how-offshoot-of-ancient-hindu-practice.html?m=0

Report: North Korea continues to persecute citizens for practicing
"In its annual white paper on North Korea's record on religious freedom, the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights said those caught practicing religions not sanctioned by the state face imprisonment and even death, according to local news service Christian Today."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/11/09/Report-North-Korea-continues-to-persecute-citizens-for-practicing-religion/2841478716723/

This Documentary About a Kailua Cult is Causing a Commotion in the Community
"Adocumentary titled Holy Hell: 25 Years Inside a Modern Cultis creating an uproar among Windward O‘ahu residents who learned from the film that the group’s Speedo-wearing leader has been based in Lanikai for several years."
http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/November-2016/This-Documentary-about-a-Kailua-Cult-is-Causing-a-Commotion-in-the-Community/

February 28, 2016

How normal people like you and I can easily become gradually duped over a period of time into becoming deceived by a destructive cult!

This video also reveals another frightening scenario: how a handful of corrupt people in positions of authority in the military could issue unjust unconstitutional orders to their subordinates to carry out acts of violence against their fellow countrymen, citizens who are guilty of nothing more than exercising their God-given Constitutional rights to keep and bear arms and protect their lands and their homes and the lives of themselves and their families!

February 25, 2016

Let’s face it, cults are fascinating. How do people get sucked in? What techniques are at play, what psychological weaknesses? We can’t help seeing ourselves in cult victims and wondering: What got them? Could it get me too? And if they escaped, how did they do it? Diana Brown digs into the matter in her entertaining and thoughtful, if unpolished and not entirely satisfying, autobiographical solo show So Amazing!

October 8, 2015

It’s October 7, 2015.This is the day the world will come to an end, according to a Christian group based in Philadelphia.It looks like we’re all still here, though it’s probably not the last time we’ll be warned about earth’s annihilation.Doomsday theorists and religious sects have been predicting The End for thousands of years.Fortunately, all of these dates have come and gone uneventfully.To maintain your faith that you’ll live to see October 8, we’ve compiled 11 other dates when the world was supposed to end and didn’t.

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